Teen Lab Members

Dr. Chung is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Kean University, Union, NJ, USA. She received the Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology/Neuroscience from Washington University in St. Louis, USA.  Her academic journey began as a master's-level clinician, driven by a desire to develop effective treatment and prevention strategies. Before she came to the USA, she got her master’s degree in clinical psychology from Korea University, Seoul, South Korea. During her time in South Korea, she conducted Cognitive Behavioral Group Therapy sessions for people with social phobia and schizophrenia. Recognizing the critical need to understand neural mechanisms underlying psychopathology, she focused her graduate research on the neural mechanisms of reward processing, social cognition, and cognitive control using functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) under mentorship of Drs. Deanna Barch and Todd Braver. She further expanded her research to understand both typical and atypical adolescent development, specifically in emotion regulation and response inhibition, using fMRI, event-related potentials (ERP), and saliva hormone methods at Duke University and the Olin Neuropsychiatry Research Center. 

Her current research interests are to determine how pubertal development influences adolescents’ reward-based decision making, cognitive control and stress-induced immune function with a focus on sex differences.  

In her free time, she enjoys watching Bluey with her kids, and cooking Korean food!  

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Isis Gonzalez is a fifth-year student at Kean University with a bachelor's degree in molecular biology and currently working on her master's degree in biotechnology. With two years of experience in diagnostic lab work, she is eager to be part of current research project about Estradiol and Probabilistic Reward Learning in Girls (project A) and get more experience through learning new methods. Her main scientific interests are Sexually Transmitted Infections (STI), she hopes to be able to closely study and patent an HPV test for heterosexual men, as there are currently no FDA approved tests for routine check-ups in the market.  

During her free time, Isis enjoys performing, singing, drawing, and going for long walks with her husband and puppy.  

I am an undergraduate psychology major at Kean University, and I moved here stateside from China when I was 14 years old. Being deeply affected by relocation and the learning of a completely different culture, I am very passionate about developmental psychology and I am driven by a strong desire to improve lives. My short-term goal is to deepen my knowledge in the field, and long-term, I hope to make a meaningful impact through research or clinical practice, with my bilingual background. 

At Teen lab, I am working on Estradiol and Probabilistic Reward Learning in Girls (project A) with graduate students to collect and analyze behavior and hormones data.  

I work hard to achieve my dreams and am excited to learn and grow each day. Fun fact: I’m a huge fan of Busan Kukbob in Fort Lee! I recommend everyone to try it out. It won’t disappoint! 

Hi everyone. My name is Dan Li, a third-year Mathematics major at Kean University. As an NSF Build and Broaden Fellow, I analyze ABCD data to study urbanicity's impact on brain imaging and adolescent development. I have research experience in Natural Language Processing (NLP), Machine Learning, Deep Learning, and testing large language models. 

I am skilled in R, Java, Python, and data visualization, and I am passionate about solving real-world problems through machine learning and data analysis! 

I am a senior Computer Science major at Kean University with research experience in computer vision, natural language processing (NLP), and visual question answering (VQA). As an NSF Student Fellow, I focus on data analysis, enhancing programming practices within our group, and bringing a fresh perspective to the ABCD research project. 

I thrive on creating and exploring new experiences, whether in academics, business, or athletics 

I’m a junior computer science major, transfer student from WKU, I have research experience with Dr. Kumar in AI testing. I’m also one of 

the Code Samurai in Kean University. 

I enjoy the feeling when create new things, doing sports, Chinese calligraphy.  

As NSF research student, my role is to handle the data with my programing skills.